Sony PlayStation allegedly eyeing expansion of PlayStation Plus to compete with Game Pass.
Sony PlayStation is launching an expanded online subscription service, according to a new report by Jason Schreier at. Currently under the development name “Spartacus,” the new service will combine the multiplayer online service PlayStation Plus and the service for streaming and downloading older games, PlayStation Now.
The move by Sony seems like an attempt to catapult them into the competition with Xbox’s Game Pass service, which has over 18 million subscribers and an Ultimate tier that includes the multiplayer benefits of Xbox Live. Game Pass puts all Xbox’s first-party games on the service, save for the odd exception with a pre-merger existing contract, like Sony having exclusive console access to Bethesda-published’s multiplayer on Game Pass, while the campaign comes next Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Nintendo added their “+ Expansion Pack” to the Switch Online service in the fall and today announced a tenth Nintendo 64 game for subscribers,
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